With all the talk in the US about illegal steroid use in athletics, its good to hear about microarrays and bioanalyzers involved in more meaningful research.  The Kaneka Corporation in Japan is using a bioanalyzer to test the RNA of mice to see the effect of licorice flavanoids (not steroids) on gene expression.  I don’t think they will turn these mice into baseball players but it does show the versatility of a bioanalyzer.  The analysis of RNA will hopefully lead to cures to some of our most puzzling diseases.  It’s just another example of this nano world and the measurements that make breakthroughs possible.

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